Subject: Indian Ocean
Period: 1787 (published)
Publication: Atlas Encyclopédique
Color: Black & White
Size:
13.5 x 9.2 inches
34.3 x 23.4 cm
Copper engraved map of the Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean. It shows the tracks of Captain James Cook who sheltered from a storm at Kerguelen on Christmas Day, 1776. Three insets show detail of small islands and harbors (including Christmas Harbor). Large compass rose.
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Condition: B
Stains in bottom margin and light scattered foxing.